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mm M to mm M MM in U M By THANK JENKINS AMERICAN military govern ment't education branch In Germany It hutiy running dawn copies of "Moln Kninnf," mil Hoik of coplo of which were printed them In nuzl days. Hut NUT having much luck. It has been Impomilble no fur to find even the 100 coplos wanted by the library of congress for fu ture itudy her and elsewhere. "Meln Kampf" and the several tlioumind other books we have biiiinrd for Uurman reading are not to be burned, a the nazls did. They are to be ground Into pulp and made into new pupor foil permitted German text books. WHAT we are trying to do li to make over the German mind, which I admittedly an ed ucational problem. If we are to uccced In our purpose, It would be u n wliii- to permit Germany to be Hooded with the wrong kind of book. STILL, luunun nature being what It In, the bent way to insure wide (.iermaii reaillng of them 1 to FOIUIID them. Muny an oldiiter of today can remember 1110 liiriu Willi winch lie road, auieiy ninaen away in tne nay mow, the dime novel which cautious parent forbade a gen. erullon or to ago. The sura way to make things laiclnatlng l to forbid them. INCIDENTALLY, there are re porta from Germany that ropiei of "Meln Kaninf" are sell lug readily for 2, Dill) mark IS200) In the German black mar ket. That indicate that the Ger man are reading them already out In the haymow, and are will ing to pay quite a lot of money for the privilege. fNE more thought along this w line: Matt of ui are pretty well convinced now tluil In compart- ,n with much of the literature that flooda ui today the dime novel that were banned by our grandparent were just good clean entertainment. REPUBLICAN SENATOR " BALDWIN, of Connecticut. wants "unity" conference be tween Republican senators and National Committee Chairman Rrece to SPEED - the party's icgitiauv program. Ha ya the Gallup poll shows that the Republican trend 10 filainly apparent at the election ml fall "I no longer in our direction." Ha adds: "Republi can back home art getting Im patient" He concludes: "I think they are unreason ably Impatient. Knowing little or nothing about legislative pro cedure, they are inclined to think we ought to have had all of our program done in eight weeks, l hat is an Impossibility. DOME wasn't built in a day. If It had been, it would have been sloppy Job. If the Re publicans try to cure in two or three monuis an tne evils mat . have grown up over the past decade or so, they, too, will do a sloppy Job. As Senator Baldwin suggests. It will be better if mora time is taken and a better Job is done. nOWN In Georgia, a mother " and four of her five children were burned to death this morn ing In an explosion that resulted from building a fire in a hentlng stove with koroscne-souked fuel. For almost as long as there has been oil, pcoplo have been getting burned to death starting fires with It. Starting a fire that way Is taking the short cut; which Is exactly what Senator Baldwin says the Impatient vot er at home want the Republican majority in congress to do. AT an international affairs congress hold In Portland yesterday (attended, among others, by Eleanor Roosevelt) Dr. Wilson Compton, president of Washington Stnte College, asserted: "Too much of tho world is being run on the theory that you don't have to have any rond manners If you are driving a five-ton truck." There's a lot of truth In that statement. We could use a LOT more of the principle of the Golden Rule and benefit greatly by doing so. Copies Of'Mein Rampf" Prove Scarce In Germany BERLIN. March 8 fP) Al though there were millions of copies of Adolf Hitler's "Meln Kaninf" printed In Germany, the U. S. library of congress is having difficulty finding even ISO in tho entire American oc cupation zone, John Bradley Rhlnd, of the American military government's education branch, sold today. "However," Rhlnd added, "wo have reports there may be many copies available In the black market where, Germans say, the book Is a popular item and brings 2000 marks ($200)." Rhlnd, son of the Rev. and Mrs. John G. Rhlnd of Colum bus, O., is a member of a mili tary government force appointed PRICE riVE CENTS I Ernest Bevin First To Get To Moscow MOSCOW. March 8 P For elgn Secretary Ernest Bevin of Britain arrived at the White Russian railroad station about noon today, first of the visiting foreign ministers to reach the Soviet capital for Monday s Big Four session. "We shall spend the days aliead in trying to make some ocace which will orevent any future aggression and let the whole world live in security," Ucvln said on his arrival for meetings at which the foreign ministers will work on peace treaties for Germany and Aus tria. Gives Speech II spoke Into a microphone recording a message to the peo ple o( Moscow, which began: "I am very glad to be back in Moscow again and bring greet ings from the British people to the people of Russia." French Foreign Minister Bi dault was expected by rail late today, but U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall was not expected before tomorrow at the earliest. Bevin was received officially by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vlshlnsky, who was dressed in the steel gray uni form of the Soviet foreign office. Vlshlnsky boarded the green railroad car which brought the British statesman from Brest Litovsk. and a moment later Bevin followed him to the sta tion platform. Truce Team Quits China PEIPING. March 8 fP) Guarded by marine platoons and observation planes, 440 Americans attached to the now defunct executive (truce) head quarters here will entrain for Tangku next Monday and Thursday to board the transport Brewster. It will be the second evacua tion operation over the Peip-ing-Ticntsin line, often harassed by communist forces. Recently there have been only sporadic attacks. Observation planes of the first marine air wing will be in radio contact with marine guards on the trains and with marine airfields at Pelping and Tientsin. In the event of trou ble, fighter planes standing by will fly to the scene. The Brewster will disembark 24 officers, 38 dependents and 18 civil service personnel at Yokohama before proceeding to San Francisco. It was learned reliably today that the first pioneer battalion marines would leave China for Guam within a week, first with drawal of marines since the de cision to move U. S. forces from China was announced. KFLW To Cover State Tournament KFLW completed arrange ments today to broadcast all state tournament basketball games In which the KUHS Peli cans participate in Eugene next WCCK. Don Ncal will dmcrlha, th bp. tlon direct from MacArthur court under sponsorship of the moior investment company and the Big Basin Lumber conuanv. The first game with Lebanon Is scncauied lor Wednesday, March iz, at u:o p. m. to purge German, public and commercial libraries of litera ture of a nazl or militaristic na ture under an order issued by the four-power allied control au thority, The American group is work ing with a master catalogue of 18,000 banned titles which are to be destroyed by grinding them into pulp to make new paper for school text books and note books. It is planned, however, to preserve ISO copies of each banned book. These are to be collected by the library of con gress mission and preserved for use by American universities and the schools and bureaus of other allied nations. o'iAfH TALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY. MARCH t. 1947 (Telephone Number 10877 A ; I ii n i 'li ii nmnrww m ! M Manager Charles Stark of the Klamath County chamber of Robert Walker. Merrill, with the Junior chamber of commerce work in civic service by a young citisen. Robert Walker, Merrill, flamed Outstanding Man v. Robert Ray Walker of Merrill was named as the outstanding Klamath county citizen of 1S46 at the Junior chamber of com merce Founders Day dinner last night, Friday, at the armory. Charles Stark, chamber of commerce manager. In present ing Walker, pointed to hit long record ol civic and community activity, both in the Merrill dis trict and Klamath county. Stark Baldwin Asks Party Confab WASHINGTON, March 8 tJP) Senator Baldwin (R-Conn.) has called for a unity conference between republican senators and National Committee Chairman Carroll Reece to speed the party's legislative program. Baldwin, a leader in the de- munds of 16 freshmen COP for greater voice in party confer ences, explained his views in a letter to Recce March 3, copies of which became available to day. Recce's secretary said the chairman would answer when ho returns from a western speaking tour. Calling for action to step up the GOP program, Baldwin said "Wo have inherited a mess, but it lsn t going to be sufficient to say that the mess was so great that wo weren't able to do any thing about it. Baldwin said the Gallup poll shows the republican trend in tho last election "is no longer in our direction." He said the republicans back home are "im patient and I think unreason ably so," "Knowing little or nothing about legislative procedure, they (republicans back home) are In clined to think that we ought to have had all of this (republican program) done in eight weeks. That is an impossibility." MIT Head Sees Atom Power Soon LOS ANGELES. March 8 IJPi Dr. Karl T. Comnton. eminnnt unysicist ann president of Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, says that "If the nations of the world display as much interest in peacetime use of atomic ener gy as they did In producing the bomb, the atom can be working for us fairly soon." Pilot plants for the production of atomic power will be in oper ation within five years, said Dr. Compton in an interview here while en route to attend the 40th anniversary celebration of, the University of Hawaii. Ho said it will take five years to develop experimental power stations and 20 years to build major power center. Annual Civic Award Announced lauded Walker as the organizer and present chief of the Merrill rural fire department which has done so much in fire prevention among farmers in the district. rle is also the chief of the Mer rill volunteer fire department wnicn operates in tne town. Stark also pointed to Walker's work as parade chairman for the Klamath Basin Potato festival and his activity during the Klamath Centennial celebration in which he helped with the fi nancing and securine of nartici pants in the Centennial parade and pageant. Walker was also instrumental, Stark said, in the imancing oi tne Merrill recrea tion hall, and is at present de voting his efforts toward secur ing an airport and a theatre for Merrill. In general. Stark noint- ed to Walker's excellent charac ter record and the respect m which he was held in the county. Also presented during the din ner were three inter-club kev awards to Jaycee members who performed outstanding work In mo ciuo during the past year. Recipients of the awards wpre James Stillwcll, Jaycee secre tory; Elton Smith, the club's treasurer; and Fred Bichn, a member of the board of direc tors. E. C. Sammons, president of me u. a. national hank of Port land, presented the principal ad dress of the evening on the theme, "The American Way of i4c. no pointed out the vast and multiple ODDortunities in the land today and as an illus tration he named a number of prominent Oregon businessmen who started life as immigrants, not too many years ago. Sam mons pleaded with his audience to support and fight for the con tinuance of the American wav and the overthrow of any other system wnicn tries to supplant Senate Passes Big Truck Bill SALEM, Ore., March 8 The senate yesterday passed the big truck bill, permitting trucks to continue at wartime lengths and weights. - The measure had al ready been approved by the house, and now goes to the gov ernor. Strong support for the meas ure came from Lake county. The vote In the senate was 28 to 1; KIDS CONTINUE BATTLE SALEM, March 8 (") The firecracker lobby, which didn't have to go to school today because It was Saturday, was busy at work In the senate in an effort to kill the house-approved bill to abolish firecrackers from the state. Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland, Jokingly demanded that Senate President Marshall E. Cornett bar the lobbyists from the floor, calling attention to a senate rule prohibiting lobbying on the floor while the senate Is in session. ' Cornett laughingly , ruled Mahoney out of order, and the lobbying continued. The lobbyists, ranging front 8 to 11 years old. are ehildren of senators and senate officers. 1 commerce is shown presenting annual award for outstanding Truman May, Visit West SEATTLE. March 8 ifP) A visit to Washington State and Alaska this summer by Presi dent and Mrs. Truman, and their daughter. Margaret, is a distinct possibility, the Post-Intelligencer said today. Reliable Washington, D. C, sources have revealed that the Trumans expect to make the trip the month following the adjournment of congress but will make no formal announce ment of their plans until near time for their departure, the newspaper declared. In Olympia, Governor Wall gren commented that the presi dent has a standing invitation to visit this state and "has indi cated he will come out when he can." President Truman spent near ly a week in June, 1944, as the guest of Governor Wallgren at the state capital. Seven Dead ' In Uprising ASUNCION, March 8 fP) Seven persons were dead of gun fire and this capital of Paraguay was under strict curfew over night as the government claimed to have smashed a short-lived armed revolt. The government laid the re volt to "communists and mem bers of the opposition February (Febrerista) party" trying to overthrow President Higinio Mo rinigo and his nephew, Interior Minister Victor Morinigo. Insurgents, government re ports said, invaded police head quarters yesterday and shot it out with Police Chief Rogelio Benitez, wounding him, before they were driven out and the uprising quelled. The government account said about 200 revolutionaries infil trated shopping grounds around police headquarters and the near by government military acad emy, picked up guns 1 and am munition from two trucks and shot their way into the head quarters and the chief's office, where he refused to surrender and exchanged fire with - them across his desk. Soon after, the government said, off-duty police and military academy troops won 'the head quarters back. Sflas WEATHER Mai, fMr. 1 S? Mia. tH tnr IplUtUa Iftal U )' ,t Htrcsm Tr ! dl ..9.13 Lul Mr U.Ja KmrmmU... Portcati; Partly elmmty, Una! rain aa4 inaw flarrlta. Asbed $33 Million Would Be Saved By Cut .WASHINGTON, March 8 (JP) Rep. Gore (D-Tenn.) proposed to day that congress save $33,000, 000 in the 1948 budget by cut ting the interest rate on income tax refunds in two. He told newsmen this would "provide some real economy" in the first big appropriation bill of the 80th congress, which he called a republican "hidden ball trick a sham and a phony." As it came from the GOP- controlled appropriations com mittee, the $12,388,029,971 meas ure providing funds for the treas ury and post office lopped $897, 072,750 off President Truman's budget estimates. Disagreement But Gore, a member of the committee, declared $800,000,000 of the apparent saving was achieved by slashing the esti mate for tax refunds. The re funds will have to be made, he said, and congress will have to provide the money now or later. He said cutting the interest on tax refunds from 6 to 3 per cent would effect a real saving, main ly at the expense of corporations which regularly overpay their taxes. Interest on refunds last year totaled $66,125,230. The Tennessean said the treasury-post office bill as it stands would make it possible for house fGOP' leaders to' achieve 'their goal of an overall $6,000,000,- uou ouoget cut without abolish ing every other federal agency except the army, the navy and the veterans administration. Red Troops Threaten Port PEIPING, March 8 (JP) Chi nese press reports said today that between 100,000 and 170, 000 communist troops were massed around the naval base city of Tsingtao while 30,000 reds pushed toward Kiaohsien, 26 miles to the northwest. In Manchuria, main Govern ment forces were reported across the Sungari river, with intense fighting expected around the Taolaichao bridgehead. Earlier reports said the vanguard of government forces had driven north to within 69 miles of Harbin. Other Chinese dispatches said Minister of National Defense Pai Chung-nsi would fly to Chang chun today to preside at a con ference of Manchurian com manders expected to discuss the campaign against Harbin. Parking Meters Work Too Well Klamath Falls' new parking meters not only work okay, ac cording to Roy Cedarwall, dis tributor for the Mark Time dockers in the northwest, they work almost too good.. Cedarwall was in Klamath Falls checking on the operation of the meters and while here he happened to park downtown in the meter zone. When he re turned to the car. under the windshield wiper was one of the city's regulation tickets for overtime parking. Cedarwall was one fellow who couldn't claim that he didn't know how the meters operated. He paid the fine. Winter Sports Good At Crater Week-end sports should be ex cellent at Crater Lake national park from the Saturday morning survey radioed into Klamath Falls early today. ' A light powdery snow covers a depth of 114 Inches including two Inches of new snow which fell last night. Roads are open but chains are required from Annie Spring ranger station to the ski bowl. It was snowing lightly Satur day morning and the tempera ture was checked at 23 degrees at 8:30 o'clock. Minimum Friday was 19, maximum, 30. Passes I ':vr' v M. PERCY EVANS Percy Evans' Death Told Milton Percy Evans, 76, for mer co-owner of the Evans apartments which was destroyed by fire last February 16, and took the life of his only broth er,' Sydney Evans, 72, died at the Ashland Community hospi tal at 3:45 p. m. Friday follow ing a lengthy illness. Mr. Evans had made his home in .this city for 38 years and was prominently identified in busi ness here. He had but recently sold his share of the apartment house at Main and 10th, to his younger brother. Final rites will be held Tues day afternoon- at 3 o'clock at Whitlock's. Mr. Evans is sur vived by his widow, Jennie M. The couple had no children. Mr. Evans was born in Illinois, July 5, 1870, son of Joseph Madi son and Mary Elizabeth Evans, natives of Indiana. In his early years. Mr. Evans went with his family to Kansas in 187Z, tne pioneer days of that state. In 1890. the elder Evans and his sons, Percy and Sydney, opened a grocery store in Severy, Kas., continuing there until 1907, when they came - to . itlamatn Falls. Here the father and Syd ney opened a small bakery and grocery which they operated to gether until 1911, when Percy arrived and they entered busi ness as The Sunset Grocery. That firm was in continuous operation until the date of the fire and had been sold last year by Percy to Walter Wiesen- danger. Mr. Evans was one of the or ganizers of the old Straborn rail way, an active member of the Klamath Falls Rotary club and a member of the KJamatn coun ty chamber of commerce. In his early days he was an ardent hunter and was also interested, as a hobby, in mineral collec tions. Twenty-seven years ago. Percy and Sydney . Evans constructed the Evans apartments and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Evans resided there during those years. Sever al months ago ill health forced Mr. Evans to retire from active business and he held his inter ests here. He leaves a host of friends to mourn his passing. 192 Die In Punjab Riots NEW DELHI. March 8 (JP) Official reports here showed to day that 192 persons had been killed and 580 wounded in riots this week in Punjab province, current trouble spot in an India split by religious and political differences in its struggle to ward independence. These reports listed the fol lowing casualties: In Lahore, provincial capital 35 dead, 160 hurt:' in Amrit sar, east of there 27 dead. 100 hurt; in Jullundur. farther east 13 dead, 30 hurt: in Multan in the west 90 dead. 115 hurt: in Rawalpindi in the northwest 27 dead, 175 hurt. Deadlocked Hawaiian House Seeks Way Out Of Muddle HONOLULU, March 8 UP) Take 15 republicans and 15 democrats, add one jigger of party loyalty, a stiff dash of never-say-die, stir well and you have Hawaii's house of repre sentatives. - Heady stuff, too. Makes head lines and headaches in the is lands. But no legislation be cause the house hasn't been able to do a lick of work since it convened February 19. Hasn't even organized. . - Daily the resolute 15 repub lican representatives and the 15 . democrat representatives meet and resolutely disagree on everything except adjournment. The other half of the terri torial legislature, the senate, is O. K. The republicans have a majority. ' But in the house it takes a steering committee five mem bers from each party 10 sei procedure allowing the leader less house to meet. Some citizens see nothing funnv in this. They're -willing to form another district right now so one more representative can get in there and break it up. Move Asked To Avert April Strike WASHTNrvrntf Mami, a in. The government will ask the tu- picine court ononoay to knocK out the possibility of a soft coal stoppage March 31 by handing down immediately its mandate against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. Union attorneys called a huddle today to decide whether they will oppose the motion by Attorney General Clark. Danger Seen The Justice department, con tending the "danger" of a walk out exists, said it would be In "the public interest" for the court to issue its edict without waiting the customary 25 days. Mpflnwhila finwaLn .1 Interior Krug said the govern- iiciii wui maxe no attempt to . brinff Lewis anrl thA mrf mm! operators together for contract negotiations "until Lewis has complied with the decision." . inrear Lessoned Aftkerf hv a roHin ln,iM.l..u . last night whether the court's . ucvuiun nas jesseneq yie threat -of another coal strike. Krug re plied: "Yes, temporarily ., .,; The high court's mandate re- quires Lewis to withdraw ri noiice enaing the union's coffc tract with uw'imuni . operator of the coal mines. When he ordered the miners back to Work nn h,Mmh . the UMW chief called a true only until the end of this month. Lewis will have five days to observe the manda e. Adding the usual 25-day delay by the su preme court would run the court t iiroccuure past ine truce dead line. Sugar Control ExtensionSeen WASHINGTON. March II IB A one-year extension of tunar. rationing and price controls waa -recommended to th .pnni- ia. day by its banking committee by a 10 to 3 vote. , At the same time the commit tee recommended that adminis tration of sugar controls be ' shifted from the OPA to the agriculture department as soon as the extension becomes, law.; - Senator Flanders (H-VtJ, who fold reporters about the deci sion after a lengthy closed door session said that the agriculture department had assured sena tors that every housewife -would receive 25 pounds of sugar this year, or 10 pounds more than allowed under rationing ' last year. ' Flanders said that there also would be more sugar available tor condensed milk "to avoid dumping milk down the drain' for lack of sugar to preserve it. The senator said that induu. trial allocation of sugar to bakers, candy-makers, bottlers and others would be 'less rigid" than formerly although the so- : called "historical base" would be retained. , . Red Cross Drive Fund Hits $2500 The American Red Cross drive, which started March- 3, nad received Siouu up to and in cluding Friday. All of the con- .. tributions reported are special gifts and firm contributionsr-- The rural and residential sec tions have not been reported to date. Several of the Red Crosa workers were handicapped the past week by influenza, includ ing the local executive secretary, Mrs. Lena M. Dennis. However, the local fund campaign chair man, Frank Sexton, has several workers lined up for downtown Klamath Falls and rural com munities and said today he waa confident that Klamath Falls would go over the top on its quota of $25,000 well ahead of schedule. . . Legislatures open out here with hula girls. Hardly had the last hip quit shaking when the fight over , the house speaker ship broke out. : Fourteen deadlocked ballots made tempers as short as a niekel beer. ' The republicans called the democrats puppets of the CIO PAC. The democrats called the republicans tools of Hawaii's big business. . Republicans offered to keep the speakership and give the democrats the membership on committees. The democrats of fered to take a vice-speakership if they got a majority on half the committees. There was a brief pause In hostilities for Gov. Ingram M. Stainback, who had been wait ing all that time, to make his address last Tuesday. Then the boys brought out the hammer and tongs again. Today, after 14 legislative days, the air is full of com promise. While the lawmakers gather ideas on how to break a deadlock, the bills in the hop per gather dust. . - ,
